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Children’s Christmas Bazaar At TOTH Saturday

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A young shopper with gifts at the 2013 TOTH Christmas Bazaar. Courtesy photo

TOTH News:

The Children’s Christmas Bazaar takes place 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Dec. 6 for children kindergarten through 6th grade at Trinity on the Hill Episcopal Church, 3900 Trinity Dr. 

Bring your children and invite your neighbor’s children to shop and have their purchases gift wrapped.  Parents wait in the café enjoying coffee and holiday treats while children shop!

Proceeds from this year’s bazaar go to support health clinics through Episcopal Relief and Development and TOTH’s youth choir Read More

Third Generation Reopens Iconic La Mesita

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Family, friends and staff  gather with new La Mesita owner Sean Ewy, center, to cut the ribbon Friday on the new restaurant. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

New La Mesita owner Sean Ewy with his grandmother Barbara Stover Friday in front of the restaurant her husband Smokey started in 1951. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

 

By CAROL A. CLARK
Los Alamos Daily Post

The grandson of La Mesita founder Charles Smokey Stover reopened the beloved restaurant at 11 a.m., Nov. 11 in the same location where it began more than six decades ago on NM 84/285 in Pojoaque.

Much reminiscing Read More

Wedding Announcement: Springfield-Brown

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Lindsey Dawn Springfield and Timothy Ryan Brown celebrate their marriage Oct. 25. Courtesy photo

Wedding Announcement: Springfield-Brown

Lindsey Dawn Springfield and Timothy Ryan Brown celebrated their marriage Oct. 25 with family and friends. 

The wedding and reception took place at the Hokukano Bayhouse at Keauhou Bay on the big island of Hawaii. “Uncle” Earl Kamakaonaona Regidor officiated the traditional Hawaiian wedding ceremony bayside on a scenic lava rock island.

Springfield is a Los Alamos High School and Northern Arizona University graduate and daughter of Steve and Read More

Solo Traveler: Prehistoric Man, Part I

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Prehistoric Venus Figurine. Photo by Sherry Hardage   
 
Reconstructed woman’s face from skull found in the L’Abri du Cap Blanc burial. Photo by Sherry Hardage 
 
Solo Traveler: Prehistoric Man, Part I
By SHERRY HARDAGE

In Paris there is a famous museum, dedicated to all that is human, called Museé du Quai Branly. It has a collection of art and useful objects from around the globe, created by humans since the dawn of our species.

On a recent trip to France, there was simply too much else to see. That museum will be one of many enticements to lure me back. Read More

How the Hen House Turns—Focus on Turkeys

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How the Hen House Turns
The Focus on Turkeys
Column by Carolyn A. (Cary) Neeper, Ph. D.

Thanksgiving week. Time to consider the mental peculiarities of turkeys.

In the early days in California, my brother and I would hike down the hill behind our house, across the creek, and up the other side. At the end of Pa’s acreage, way beyond the fruit trees where we found some old bones and a skull, was a huge fenced field filled with turkeys—white feathered turkeys.

We would holler “gobble gobble gobble,” and they would all answer. The chorus of gobbles would rise to a crescendo of various tones then fade to scattered Read More

TOTH: Shop On The Corner Christmas Sale Dec. 3

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By NANCY WURDEN, Volunteer
Shop on the Corner

The annual Christmas Sale at the Shop on the Corner Thrift Store is a decades-old tradition. For more than 40 years, the shop has offered a special sale featuring holiday items and gifts on the first Wednesday in December.

This year’s sale will take place 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 3. Shop on the Corner is in the Old Parish Hall on the lower level of Trinity on the Hill Episcopal Church on Canyon Road by the corner of Diamond Drive.

Shop on the Corner volunteers have been preparing for the Christmas Sale all year, setting aside hundreds Read More

American Legion Hosting Annual Thanksgiving Meal

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Traditional Thanksgiving meal. Courtesy photo

AMERICAN LEGION News:

The Los Alamos American Legion Frank G. Frainier Post 90 is hosting its traditional Thanksgiving meal.

The community is invited to attend. The meal will be served 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., or for as long as there are those in need Thursday in the American Legion Hall at 1325 Trinity Dr.

In addition, members will be delivering meals to those in the community who are homebound. To have a meal delivered, contact the Betty Ehart Senior Center at 505.662.8920. For those who would like to support the event through a donation, bring it by the Post Read More

Two Los Alamos Businesses Team Up To Talk Unique Travel Opportunities During Small Business Saturday

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BUSINESS News:
 
Two Los Alamos home-based businesses, Guanaco Adventures and Prime Passages Travel are teaming up Saturday to host a table at the Small Business Saturday home-based business fair taking place at 170 Central Park Square (next door to Quiznos). 
 
The business fair is a part of the overall Small Business Saturday events downtown. The two businesses will be available 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. to share information about their travel offerings and meet people interested in future travel adventures. 
 
Guanaco Adventures specializes small group travel to Chilean
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Food on the Hill: Thanksgiving Fun And Make-Ahead Gravy

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Food on the Hill
Thanksgiving Fun And Make-Ahead Gravy
By Felicia Orth

Things Have Changed!

In the Midwest as a girl, my family of seven annually joined a few dozen others on my mom’s side in Aunt Dolores’ and Uncle Jim’s home.

We enjoyed Thanksgiving dinner with aunts and uncles, cousins and grandparents; and there were a few firm traditions: only married couples sat at the adults’ table, with the rest of us at the large kids’ table; the most recently married bride brought the carrots and celery sticks; dinner always began with a small plate upon which sat a thick slice of can-ribbed jellied cranberry Read More

How the Hen House Turns—The Unthinkable: Running Free

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How the Hen House Turns
The Unthinkable: Running Free
Column by Carolyn A. (Cary) Neeper, Ph. D.

Skates, our blond border collie, was missing. I must have gone downstairs and called, then whistled. No Skates. I walked down the front stairs, up the driveway to the backyard and called and whistled again. Still no Skates.

What is remarkable, now that I think of it, is that I felt no angst, just a little irritation: “Oh dear. Skates and Sammy are probably off somewhere on campus.”

Those were our graduate school years 1959-1963 in Madison, Wisc. Sammy was a small dog who lived somewhere nearby and often Read More